Splitting a contraction of a simple curve traversed m times

DOI10.1142/S1793525317500157MaRDI QIDQ5276002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregory R. Chambers, Yevgeny Liokumovich

Publication date 14 July 2017

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03445

zbMATH Keywords

quantitative topologyRiemannian surfacehomotopy of curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Homotopy theory (55P99)

Abstract: Suppose that $M$ is a $2$-dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold, and let $gamma$ be a simple closed curve on $M$. Let $mgamma$ denote the curve formed by tracing $gamma$ $m$ times. We prove that if $mgamma$ is contractible through curves of length less than $L$, then $gamma$ is contractible through curves of length less than $L$. In the last section we state several open questions about controlling length and the number of self-intersections in homotopies of curves on Riemannian surfaces.

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